Simple Author Box <= 2.50 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via save_user_profile

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CVE	Not available
CVSS	Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published	March 28, 2023
Last Updated	January 22, 2024

Description

The Simple Author Box plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.50. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the save_user_profile function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to edit user profile settings of other users via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	simple-author-box (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 2.50
Patched Version	2.51

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